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Companies are less likely to recycle electronics than other waste, even though computers make dreadful trash. A desktop computer contains nearly 40 lbs. of plastic, lead, aluminum and iron, along with small amounts of arsenic, mercury, zinc and gold, and environmentalists are worried that the metals will leach into soil and water. But without national standards, some recyclers play fast and loose with the term. Some just shred waste. Others ship it overseas to China, Vietnam or India...
...Wild Child [Bode] Miller is little more than a pretty good downhill skier who qualified for the Olympics [Jan. 23]. He lives a self-centered, self-indulgent, party-boy lifestyle and is hardly a role model for kids who want to break into competitive skiing or anything else. John Leach Naples, Florida, U.S. Anyone who says this young, aggressive, intuitive man isn't the embodiment of pure American spirit needs to watch the Olympic skiing events and learn about sport from Miller, who, for better or worse, will certainly dominate the races. He parties a lot and doesn't care...
Both of these changes are entirely feasible, but students and faculty must tell their student representatives to take action. According to Pamela Leach, the American Red Cross supervisor of the Harvard effort, the Red Cross would love to expand the University’s blood drive, but it is up to students to ask. Patricia M. Raciti ’06, co-President of the drive, says that although her organization does not control the number of beds and nurses, she wishes students would provide feedback so that they could relay information to the Red Cross. The resources, then...
...they have been standing there a long time, contemplating the sight of Shanghai's biggest tourist attraction, a shiny visual shorthand for national ambitions: height, wealth, modernity, progress. Yet in Delano's picture, the towers appear faint and far away. They don't scrape the sky so much as leach into it. Maybe they're about to come into focus, maybe they'll fade out completely. We can't tell which...
...Governor. More trouble may come from Capitol Hill. For months Representative Henry Gonzalez, the Texas Democrat who is chairman of the House Banking Committee, has been resisting calls to step up a laggard investigation of Madison by his committee. But last week's disclosures provide ammunition for Jim Leach of Iowa, the committee's ranking Republican, who has been pushing for a more vigorous investigation. Says Newt Gingrich, House minority whip: ''If we had a Republican President, there would be full-blown committee hearings in January. What you're seeing here is Democrats banding together to cover up, ignore...